Titian 1487/90 – 1576
The Crowning with Thorns (1545)
oil on panel (303 × 180 cm) — c.1545
This work is linked to Mark 15:17
Art and the Bible - Mark 15 - New Testament
Mark 15 1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. 2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? An
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Using sticks men place the crown of thorns on Jesus' head. They then turn it till he bleeds. They also put a reed in his hands. The statue of emperor Tiberius suggests that it all happened with Roman approval.
Titian shows Jesus with his head tilted and his mouth half open, perhaps after the famous sculpture of Laocoön which was rediscovered in 1506.
Later, in the 1570's, Titian made another painting on the subject.
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